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Greetings tribers of all stripes, investigators to whom I ascribe a variety of random (redundant?) last names and other assorted humans,

Peace from Av. Brigadeiro Faria Lima in Sao Paulo. Rainy. Good churrasco tonight at Jardineira on Av. dos Bandeirantes.

Had the opportunity to share the gospel today with my boss....the whole chronological (with Genesis 1-3 included) in 7 minutes and 24 seconds.....while driving a Ford Fusion near Jundiai.

He might even become a believer before me. (munch on that one tribers)

Currently listening to the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir and Stevie Wonder.

God is big enough to get Stevie Wonder saved and get him to be part of the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir.

And if He can do that, He can solve this whole mess in such a wonderful way. He came that we might have life....all of us.....and have it more abundantly. And that includes Stan and George and Andy and Rodney Rodriguez, and me, and you and me and the Illinois Law Enforcement Community....you, me, them, everybody, everybody. (For those not recognizing a line from the the movie Blues Brothers, please exit to your right and take all your belongings with you)

For tonight's special music (while we take up the offering), here is Alabama:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHdXQAQHjd8
Alabama - Song Of The South

The :42 second mark of the video has hidden message about where I plan to live during the Millenium.

My wife has begged me many times to quit posting here.
My father-in-law has told me my involvement here will only bring me heartache.
And I'm trying to quit.
Walgreens now sells a "Fandaeagles Nicotine Patch"

But you know what happens when you're 4,741.4 miles from home, away from your family, in a metro area with over 10,000,000 women....a guy's mind tends to stray, and I feel the need to post.....youtube videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvF1QtgnurY
The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir - I´m Amazed

By the way, Jason Crabb (see video above...I inserted Portuguese subtitles for Edu who apparently claims to not be very good with English) is from Kentucky. Abraham Lincoln is from Kentucky. And Abraham Lincoln said this, which I think can apply, in whole or in part, to our present situation and condition:

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za1-e9zuGV0
The Old Rugged Cross - Alan Jackson

During the millennium, I'm hoping we'll have country music......which means I ain't living in New York.
I heard tell they don't have one country music station in the whole daggum city.

Listening to Alan Jackson sing The Old Rugged Cross makes you wonder if yankees even have a fair shot at getting into heaven. They just don't have the right accent. Kind of like the "shibboleth" thing in the book of Judges.

http://library.timelesstruths.org/music ... ged_Cross/
On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross,
The emblem of suff’ring and shame;
And I love that old cross where the dearest and best
For a world of lost sinners was slain.
Refrain:
So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross,
Till my trophies at last I lay down;
I will cling to the old rugged cross,
And exchange it some day for a crown.

Oh, that old rugged cross, so despised by the world,
Has a wondrous attraction for me;
For the dear Lamb of God left His glory above
To bear it to dark Calvary.

In that old rugged cross, stained with blood so divine,
A wondrous beauty I see,
For ’twas on that old cross Jesus suffered and died,
To pardon and sanctify me.

To the old rugged cross I will ever be true;
Its shame and reproach gladly bear;
Then He’ll call me some day to my home far away,
Where His glory forever I’ll share.



Tribers you can lay down those trophies and reputations already....lay them down and let's gather at the foot of the cross. He sees everything. He saw everything. He's never fooled. He's slow to wrath. Why not touch base with HIM before He has a bad hair day and forgets to take his "burning fire" medication? Will that be Nadab original or Abihu extra crispy?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/magaz ... se.html?hp

As for questions about Wright or the other teachers I heard about in the course of my reporting, the school issued a blanket statement, saying: “The article contains allegations dating back, in some instances, 30 years, long before the current administration took office, which makes it difficult to accurately respond to the factual allegations therein. In addition, on June 13, 1984, there was a fire in the attic of the business office that destroyed some records.”

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M., another man now in his mid-50s, had a similar experience. He was so anxious about my revealing his identity that he initially said he would speak only through an intermediary. (“M” is a letter in his middle name — the closest he would come to letting me identify him in print.) But sometime near midnight this past January, he called me directly and launched into a rapid-fire account of how Somary, “a manipulator par excellence,” groomed him for victimization. And how, one night, Somary suggested they take a drive. Somary parked in a lot near the club where the two had spent many hours playing tennis together. “He then pulled me close to his chest,” M. said. “I’m thinking: This is weird. Uncomfortable. Then he starts kissing my lips. I’m thinking, Oh, my God, this can’t be happening. I didn’t know what to do. I was just a child. I didn’t have the ego strength to say no. I was shocked, uncomfortable, but I let it persist. He unzipped my pants and started to masturbate me.”

Somary took him on glee-club trips and then on solo trips to Europe, M. said: “We stayed at the best hotels, I met with the great classical musicians of the time and ate at the finest restaurants. I was expected to have sex with him and did even though it repulsed me every time. It was all very confusing. At one point I told my parents I no longer wanted to sleep in the same room with him on the European trips.” When Somary found out, he “drove to my house and sat in my living room like a jilted lover, begging me to stay in the same room with him,” M. said. “Right in front of my father.” M.’s mother, who confirmed his story, said she and her husband didn’t understand the nature of their son’s discomfort. They thought he was just being a teenager, preferring the company of his peers. He couldn’t bring himself to tell his parents the truth.

Foote’s tenure as headmaster lasted only three years, and since that time he suffered a stroke, but speaking recently in his home on the Upper East Side, he was able to recall both the letter and the surrounding events. “Somary came into my office with the mother and strenuously denied everything,” Foote said. “His vehemence made a lot of people put off doing anything about it.” Later, Foote said: “All the administration and trustees got together and decided they wouldn’t do anything about it. People came out of the woodwork protecting Somary.” (I have contacted 10 trustees from that era. Most declined to speak to me at all; only one, Michael Hess, agreed to speak with me on the record, but he said he had no specific recollection of the incident.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/magaz ... f=magazine

As for Ben, he finished up his senior year and went to Brown. But he didn’t seem to find solace there, nor in his postcollege life, in which he muddled through a series of jobs and relationships, struggling with depression and finding it hard to commit to anything. Charles said that through it all, Ben continued to bring up the abuse he had suffered. “There was definitely a before- and after-Somary quality to his life,” Charles said. In 2009, while living on Shelter Island, off the eastern end of Long Island, he made another suicide attempt, with antidepressants and alcohol. This time he succeeded.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/magaz ... f=magazine

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/magaz ... f=magazine

I have several friends who confided in me, back in high school, about their own sexual encounters with teachers, but who are now unwilling to talk about it. I can’t say I blame them. Victims rarely speak out, said Paul Mones, a lawyer who represents people who have been sexually abused by authority figures. “The whole goal of the grooming process is to wrap the child close,” he told me. “The affection and trust is to make the kid complicit in the act. Make them feel like it was their fault, so it won’t even occur to them to talk.” Even if they do, New York State’s statute of limitations, which says people who were victimized as minors cannot take civil action against an abuser after they turn 23, makes it unlikely that they would find justice.

LETTERS
The Role of Institutions in Reporting Child Sex Abuse
Published: December 8, 2011


To the Editor:

As “Reporting Abuse” (editorial, Nov. 29) underscores, it is far too easy for powerful institutions to cover up incidents of child and adolescent sexual abuse at the hands of people in positions of trust. There is a marked contrast, however, between the respective states’ response to the Pennsylvania State University and Syracuse University scandals.

The State of Pennsylvania has powerful tools to investigate aggressively and criminally charge those responsible for covering up abuses. New York does not. Since 2003, I have introduced legislation that makes it a felony for mandated reporters to systematically fail to report abuse.


It is also clear that the list of those mandated to report abuse needs to be significantly expanded. Sadly, recent incidents once again raise the question: How many abuse scandals will be tolerated before the New York State Legislature gets serious about the issue and passes meaningful legislation?

THOMAS K. DUANE
State Senator, 29th District
New York, Nov. 29, 2011


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/opini ... abuse.html